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I'm having a house built and I'll probably end up with 6-10 builder grade flush mount "boob" lights. I don't have a problem with them. I came across this video and it got me thinking.
Are you okay with "boob" lights or do you have issues with them like the guy in the video?
"Flush" mount lights have their place- granted, there's only so much you can do from a design standpoint. Either you like them, or you don't. It's not the end of the world!!!
I'm having a house built and I'll probably end up with 6-10 builder grade flush mount "boob" lights. I don't have a problem with them. I came across this video and it got me thinking.
Are you okay with "boob" lights or do you have issues with them like the guy in the video?
Too funny. I heard this term a couple of years ago and it made me realize how much I wanted to replace my foyer fixture. I haven't found what I want yet.
I also needed to get a new hall fixture - the one that was there was original to the house (the el-cheapo $6 globe lights) and it was the last one that I had left to replace. I bought this and installed it last weekend. Nice and bright, and clean-looking.
I've used these in a couple places. They're cheap, they're cheerful, they're pretty inconspicuous. Later on, if I find a nicer fixture (not a Home Despot made in China special), they'll get replaced.
Probably best to just go with them for now since you have plenty of other more important selection/decisions to make during the building process. You could easily change them out later to the fixture of you choice, if desired.
I had one in my entrance hall when we moved into this house, I had replaced the one in the hall of my old home. I splurged 25 years ago and bought a Waterford flush mount and took it with me when we moved.
Truth be told, not one person has ever commented on the fixture, but I love it. FWIW, I have a long hall into my bedroom and have 2 boobs there and one in the hall to the garage. I don't love them but then again, since the entrance hall has never been commented on, no one seems to notice.
I guess if you have a generic modern home boob lights don't look so bad, but in an old house they usually look pretty awful. I had one that my sellers had installed in the foyer of my old bungalow, which I quickly swapped out for a nice vintage 20's hand-painted fixture. Aesthetically it looked so much more appropriate.
I didn't have a problem until I heard them refered to as boob lights. Now I look at them and think wow, I get it. But otherwise they are just fine and perfectly functional.
My nephew was having a house built and builder grade lights were "boob" lights mostly and he also didn't like the other lights that came with the house. This was a typical starter home house. He got the builder to agree with installing the lighting he purchased. The builder did not give him any credit for the boob lights. But at least he had the fixtures he really liked installed by builder and nephew didn't have to get rid of the lighting he didn't want anyway.
They are an improvement over the jelly jar or cheap glass fixtures.
My only issue - which isn’t as much an issue as long as the ceiling is freshly painted and dried - is that their large area means that often when you remove them there is a ring of old paint that needs touching up if you’re putting up something smaller or hanging as a replacement.
It’s annoying to remove one and see a paint ring around it as well as a darker circle.
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